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Not Jimmy Buffet here, but Carla Boni and Gino Latilla. This looks like a precarious situation to be in!
“Jungle Nights and Man Eaters” With Dana Brown. (1967) It took big game hunter, Dana Brown two years to track down and kill the “Man-eating” tiger of Western Nepal. Along the way, Dana spent 26 nights alone in 14 different jungles to record the actual jungle sounds heard here for the first time. Sounds of a Royal Bengal Tiger fighting with a 1,000 pound buffalo; the sounds of tigers mating! and the weird music of Western Nepal during the 8-day holiday when all marriage ties are disolved! But back to the serial killer tiger, it claimed 50 victims before the King of Nepal called on Dana to fix the problem.
“Moody & Magnificent” The Harry Robinson String Sound. Top Rank International Records.
Sammy “The Seal” was drawn to a life of crime. After years in organized comics serving alongside Danny “The Dinosour”, Grizzwald “Da Bear” and Chester “The Horse,” he was arrested on petty theft charges at the fish market. The courthouse was a zoo and the case turned into a media circus. The judge was going to throw the book at him, but Sammy plea bargained and testified against ring leader Syd “the pen” Hoff. Today Sammy is living with a new identity under the government protection plan somewhere in the mid-west. Based on the book by Syd Hoff. Illustrated by Syd Hoff. 1959.
Fantastic!
“Let’s Polka” Cousin Fuzzy and His Cousins
“Macumba” on the Brazilian Sinter label. This is one of the most amazing covers. A real voodoo ritual complete with the rooster blood letting, the live snake, the priestess and her pipe and most disturbingly the man in a trance licking the blood from his hand. I’m spooked to even be writing about it. Curses!
Liebersleid and Other Kreisler Favorites on Westminster
Another Yvette Horner record. This time her crazy dog has the accordion!
Hugo and Luigi “Cha-hua-hua” On Roulette Records
The two-sided cover of an Underdog picture-sleeve from 1965. I really liked Underdog as a kid and remember Sweet Polly Purebred fondly. “There’s no need to fear, Underdog is here!” Wally Cox, TV’s mild-mannered Mr. Peepers, provided the voice of NBC-TV’s Underdog, a super-canine who talked in rhyme. Underdog was the alter-identity of Shoeshine Boy. He was usually called into action by his girlfriend, ace TV reporter Sweet Polly Purebred (voiced by Norma McMillan). When he heard Polly’s singing plea of “Oh where, oh where has my Underdog gone?”, “humble, lovable” Shoeshine Boy would slip into a phone booth and emerge as the champion of justice. “When Polly’s in trouble I am not slow, it’s Hip, Hip, Hip and away I go !”
The Underdog Show began with a parody of Superman’s famous opening: “Look, up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a frog…a frog?” At that point, the canine would correct the observers with: “Not bird, nor plane, nor even frog, it’s just little ‘ole me, Underdog !” Like his human counterpart, Underdog was not infallible. While he didn’t have to contend with Kryptonite, occasionally his power would fade, causing him all kinds of trouble. For cases like that, the pooch would carry a revitalizing energy pill in a secret compartment in his ring.
Underdog’s main foes included underworld boss Riff Raff, and Simon Bar Sinister, an evil scientist who once created a Big Dipper Machine to steal the world’s water supply. He then enslaved the citizens and made them do as “Simon Says” just to get a drink.
The Lex Golden Jazz Octet in HI-FI
This cover really stands out. It’s a hand-tinted photo. Even the label “Duarte” is written by hand. A Caballo! (Edit: “On Horseback!) by Orquesta Neno Gonzalez. The full-figured model in the leopard-skin bikini rides side-saddle and seems small in comparison to the horse. She’s posed almost the way a circus or carnival act might pose. A nice composition as the roofs come down to meet her and off to the right a hand holds the reins to lead her out of the frame. I believe that this is Mexican.
Cover image by the great photographer Paul Huf (1924- 2002) of Holland. Design by Van Borssum. Phillips Favourite Series. The woman is Huf’s muse and singular model for all the covers in the series - British model Ann Pickford.
The Uncensored Humor of The Rebel Playboys “Laugh Out #1″ A stag party record.
The singing chef. What a turkey. Thanks to Brother Jerome for this.
Don Redman’s “Park Ave. Patter” Golden Crest records.
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